Uncertainties and caveats associated with these projections include climate sensitivity, climate warming patterns, CO2 emissions, future population distributions, and technological and societal change.
Because this is after all, just a projection based on computer models. And we know how well they work "out of sample."
I know this was an oversight on your part, but you failed to include a link to an authority on those external costs, including numbers. What does "artificially cheap" mean?
While you're working on that, you might think about what raising the cost of energy will do to the world's poor -- those living on less than one US dollar per day.
Yes, but that doesn't include the cost of obtaining fuel.
And that's why we link to sources. But rather than follow the link, some people prefer to showcase their ignorance.
Levelized Energy Cost (LEC, also known as Levelised Cost of Energy, abbreviated as LCOE) is the price at which electricity must be generated from a specific source to break even over the lifetime of the project. It is an economic assessment of the cost of the energy-generating system including all the costs over its lifetime: initial investment, operations and maintenance, cost of fuel, cost of capital, and is very useful in calculating the costs of generation from different sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
An installed nameplate terawatt would cost about $1,000,000,000,000. That's a pretty expensive experiment. And wind turbines' real world average output is a fraction of their nameplate rating.
But this is not "news for nerds" by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
Unless it happened to you.
Secretary Janet Napolitano oversees the third largest Cabinet department and leads our nation's efforts to secure our country from terrorism to natural disasters. http://www.dhs.gov/about-dhs
Arrington is an interesting person but it's a stretch to say the he's either a terrorist or natural disaster.
The coal and oil companies have spent in the United States alone a half a billion dollars in the first eight months of this year promoting a lie that there is such a thing as "clean coal." Clean coal's like healthy cigarettes -- it does not exist. It could theoretically exist. The only demonstration plant was canceled. How many, how many such plants are there? Zero. How many blueprints? Zero. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/09/28/172379/gore-clean-coal-cigarettes/?mobile=nc
The reported $120 million is total funding, not what is spent on "climate."
Greenpeace annual spending (year ended 12/31/2010) -- $35 million
Al Gore's Climate Reality Project had revenues of $16 million and spent $25 million in 2010.
WWF, formerly The World Wildlife Fund, spent $243 million in 2012.
The US government has spent over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, education campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climate_money.html
There's a lot of money floating around, most of it being spent by "warmers."
High volume consumer devices have been not-repairable for years. If it fails during warranty, you get a new or "refurbished" unit for free. If it fails outside of warranty you may get a new or "refurbished" unit at lower than list price. Or you may not.
Short of sliding it off the table onto a concrete floor at Starbucks, the failure rate on these should be vanishingly small.
If you're really worried, you can "Protect your Surface with a 2-year extended warranty and technical support service." for $99. Best Buy will sell you a "Product Replacement Plan" for a price.
"Sold out" online only. In fact it "sold out" online weeks (from memory) before the launch date.
... and that thing has sold poorly... Define "poorly." Quote numbers sold and source for your data. You don't know. I don't know. Only Microsoft knows and so far, they aren't talking.
And finally... the conjecture that MS wants to "generate some additional post launch hype" by pissing off a bunch of potential customers is just ignorant.
From TFA... In its second-annual accounting of emissions that cause global warming from stationary sources, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time included oil and natural- gas production. Emissions from drilling, including fracking, and leaks from transmission pipes totaled 225 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents during 2011, second only to power plants, which emitted about 10 times that amount.
1. From stationary sources -- how about planes, trains and automobiles. 2. Fracking is just part of what is included in "oil and gas production." 3. "The EPA report showed the benefits of fracking, as it attributed the reduction to cuts in coal use and increased use of gas as fuel by electricity generators."
From TFA... Though it takes significant energy and resources to produce the super-small silicon balls, the particles could help power portable devices in situations where water is available and portability is more important than low cost. Military operations and camping trips are two examples of such scenarios.
Once again we have a green/renewable energy plan that comes without a price tag. This stuff isn't free -- in fact it's pretty expensive. If people knew how expensive they'd, be more cautious about building.
The anti-touch commenters here echo the comments of anti-mousers decades ago -- "Not for me." We know how that worked out.
1. Until you work with a touch enabled laptop, you have no basis for comment about touch enabled laptops. 2. Until you work with a touch enabled desktop, you have no basis for comment about touch enabled laptops. 3. After experiencing touch enabled laptops and desktops, different people will have different opinions but nobody should feel obligated to force their opinions on others. 4. I have two months experience using a touch enabled laptop computer and I love it. Your mileage may vary. 5. I have no experience with using a touch enabled desktop computer so I have no comment.
People are different and different people use computers in different ways. Some are amenable to touch and some are not.
So what large vertical desktop displays even have touch screens?
Have you been in a bar, restaurant, retail checkout or hospital in the last five years?
The message is not, "abandon your mouse/trackpad/eraserthingy." The message is use the best tool for the job you're doing.
For a phone, touch is usually the best tool. For a tablet, touch is usually the best tool. For a laptop, touch is frequently the best tool. For a desktop, touch is occasionally the best tool. For specialized applications, touch is frequently the best tool.
And until you've spent some time using a modern All-in-one with a large touch screen (in addition to the keyboard and mouse), you can't authoritatively comment one way or the other.
All commenters who have used a Windows 8 or Windows RT touchscreen, raise your hand... I thought so. Until you've spent some time (real time, like a few days) with a Windows 8/RT device, you're just speculating.
Windows 8/RT touchscreen computers (Surface, laptop) are far better devices than Windows 7 laptops with touchpads or those silly eraser things. And once you've spent some time with Windows 8 touchscreen, you'll not want to go back.
And for those unhappy with typing on a screen, get rid of all your iPhones and Androids.
We all know that nine women can't make a baby in one month but Chu thinks that they can if they work for the government and he throws enough money at them.
Five years is conveniently after the current administration has left the building.
This is simple. 1. Cut deliveries to three per week -- MWF and TThSa. 2. Raise rates to cover costs. 3. Close local post offices and replace them with contractors where required.
The reason nobody's been able to launch an Android empire from the garage is fairly straightforward: the average smartphone is covered by over 250,000 patents."
And it's hard. And it costs a lot of money. And the market is full of very good competitors. Otherwise there's nothing stopping you.
The horror of having your computer OS updated automagically in the dead of night while you sleep. I don't know how people have lived with it this long.
From your link... Microsoft's Surface test manager, Ricardo Lopez said there will be about 20 GB of free space after Windows RT, Office RT, and "a bunch of apps."
So, you get Office RT, a bunch of apps and 20 GB of free space compared to what for the iPad?
Users are, of course, free to delete "Office RT and 'a bunch of apps.'"
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Uncertainties and caveats associated with these projections include climate sensitivity, climate warming patterns, CO2 emissions, future population distributions, and technological and societal change.
Because this is after all, just a projection based on computer models. And we know how well they work "out of sample."
I know this was an oversight on your part, but you failed to include a link to an authority on those external costs, including numbers. What does "artificially cheap" mean?
While you're working on that, you might think about what raising the cost of energy will do to the world's poor -- those living on less than one US dollar per day.
Yes, but that doesn't include the cost of obtaining fuel.
And that's why we link to sources. But rather than follow the link, some people prefer to showcase their ignorance.
Levelized Energy Cost (LEC, also known as Levelised Cost of Energy, abbreviated as LCOE) is the price at which electricity must be generated from a specific source to break even over the lifetime of the project. It is an economic assessment of the cost of the energy-generating system including all the costs over its lifetime: initial investment, operations and maintenance, cost of fuel, cost of capital, and is very useful in calculating the costs of generation from different sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Note, "cost of fuel."
Hewlett-Packard seems more determined than ever to flee the Windows reservation ...
Maybe so, but they don't want to get too far away.
"The new HP ENVY x2 PC gives you the power of two devices in one. A Windows 8 notebook with a bright, vivid HD Touch display. And a tablet that slides off for those times when you want to carry even less."
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ad/envy-x2/overview.html?jumpid=hpr_r1002_usen_link1
The costs for a utility scale wind turbine in 2012 range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed.
http://www.windustry.org/resources/how-much-do-wind-turbines-cost
Say, a dollar per watt (nameplate).
An installed nameplate terawatt would cost about $1,000,000,000,000. That's a pretty expensive experiment. And wind turbines' real world average output is a fraction of their nameplate rating.
The total levelized cost of an advanced combined cycle natural gas fired plant is about one third less than onshore wind and 80% less than offshore wind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
But this is not "news for nerds" by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
Unless it happened to you.
Secretary Janet Napolitano oversees the third largest Cabinet department and leads our nation's efforts to secure our country from terrorism to natural disasters.
http://www.dhs.gov/about-dhs
Arrington is an interesting person but it's a stretch to say the he's either a terrorist or natural disaster.
Al Gore said ...
The coal and oil companies have spent in the United States alone a half a billion dollars in the first eight months of this year promoting a lie that there is such a thing as "clean coal." Clean coal's like healthy cigarettes -- it does not exist. It could theoretically exist. The only demonstration plant was canceled. How many, how many such plants are there? Zero. How many blueprints? Zero.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/09/28/172379/gore-clean-coal-cigarettes/?mobile=nc
The reported $120 million is total funding, not what is spent on "climate."
Greenpeace annual spending (year ended 12/31/2010) -- $35 million
Al Gore's Climate Reality Project had revenues of $16 million and spent $25 million in 2010.
WWF, formerly The World Wildlife Fund, spent $243 million in 2012.
The US government has spent over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, education campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climate_money.html
There's a lot of money floating around, most of it being spent by "warmers."
High volume consumer devices have been not-repairable for years. If it fails during warranty, you get a new or "refurbished" unit for free. If it fails outside of warranty you may get a new or "refurbished" unit at lower than list price. Or you may not.
Short of sliding it off the table onto a concrete floor at Starbucks, the failure rate on these should be vanishingly small.
If you're really worried, you can "Protect your Surface with a 2-year extended warranty and technical support service." for $99. Best Buy will sell you a "Product Replacement Plan" for a price.
You pays your money and you takes your chances.
"Sold out" online only. In fact it "sold out" online weeks (from memory) before the launch date.
Define "poorly." Quote numbers sold and source for your data. You don't know. I don't know. Only Microsoft knows and so far, they aren't talking.
And finally ... the conjecture that MS wants to "generate some additional post launch hype" by pissing off a bunch of potential customers is just ignorant.
From TFA ...
In its second-annual accounting of emissions that cause global warming from stationary sources, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time included oil and natural- gas production. Emissions from drilling, including fracking, and leaks from transmission pipes totaled 225 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents during 2011, second only to power plants, which emitted about 10 times that amount.
1. From stationary sources -- how about planes, trains and automobiles.
2. Fracking is just part of what is included in "oil and gas production."
3. "The EPA report showed the benefits of fracking, as it attributed the reduction to cuts in coal use and increased use of gas as fuel by electricity generators."
From TFA ...
Though it takes significant energy and resources to produce the super-small silicon balls, the particles could help power portable devices in situations where water is available and portability is more important than low cost. Military operations and camping trips are two examples of such scenarios.
Once again we have a green/renewable energy plan that comes without a price tag. This stuff isn't free -- in fact it's pretty expensive. If people knew how expensive they'd, be more cautious about building.
The anti-touch commenters here echo the comments of anti-mousers decades ago -- "Not for me." We know how that worked out.
1. Until you work with a touch enabled laptop, you have no basis for comment about touch enabled laptops.
2. Until you work with a touch enabled desktop, you have no basis for comment about touch enabled laptops.
3. After experiencing touch enabled laptops and desktops, different people will have different opinions but nobody should feel obligated to force their opinions on others.
4. I have two months experience using a touch enabled laptop computer and I love it. Your mileage may vary.
5. I have no experience with using a touch enabled desktop computer so I have no comment.
People are different and different people use computers in different ways. Some are amenable to touch and some are not.
So what large vertical desktop displays even have touch screens?
Have you been in a bar, restaurant, retail checkout or hospital in the last five years?
The message is not, "abandon your mouse/trackpad/eraserthingy." The message is use the best tool for the job you're doing.
For a phone, touch is usually the best tool. For a tablet, touch is usually the best tool. For a laptop, touch is frequently the best tool. For a desktop, touch is occasionally the best tool. For specialized applications, touch is frequently the best tool.
And until you've spent some time using a modern All-in-one with a large touch screen (in addition to the keyboard and mouse), you can't authoritatively comment one way or the other.
Rent seeking, meet regulatory capture.
All commenters who have used a Windows 8 or Windows RT touchscreen, raise your hand ... I thought so. Until you've spent some time (real time, like a few days) with a Windows 8/RT device, you're just speculating.
Windows 8/RT touchscreen computers (Surface, laptop) are far better devices than Windows 7 laptops with touchpads or those silly eraser things. And once you've spent some time with Windows 8 touchscreen, you'll not want to go back.
And for those unhappy with typing on a screen, get rid of all your iPhones and Androids.
This comment written on a Surface RT.
We all know that nine women can't make a baby in one month but Chu thinks that they can if they work for the government and he throws enough money at them.
Five years is conveniently after the current administration has left the building.
The new ClassPad fx-CP400 has a massive color touchscreen ...
Define "Massive."
This is simple.
1. Cut deliveries to three per week -- MWF and TThSa.
2. Raise rates to cover costs.
3. Close local post offices and replace them with contractors where required.
The reason nobody's been able to launch an Android empire from the garage is fairly straightforward: the average smartphone is covered by over 250,000 patents."
And it's hard. And it costs a lot of money. And the market is full of very good competitors. Otherwise there's nothing stopping you.
Any article that calls an important piece of technology a "gadget" is neither serious nor credible.
"Conceding that he hadn't actually played with one ...
Stop right there.
The horror of having your computer OS updated automagically in the dead of night while you sleep. I don't know how people have lived with it this long.
From your link ...
Microsoft's Surface test manager, Ricardo Lopez said there will be about 20 GB of free space after Windows RT, Office RT, and "a bunch of apps."
So, you get Office RT, a bunch of apps and 20 GB of free space compared to what for the iPad?
Users are, of course, free to delete "Office RT and 'a bunch of apps.'"